Random Picker Wheel

Enter each name or choice on a separate line in the Options box. Add between 2 and 100 non-empty entries; the wheel updates as the list changes.

Select the play control in the centre of the wheel. One current entry is selected, the wheel rotates to that segment, and the result appears when the spin completes.

Choose Keep winner when the result should stay eligible, or Remove winner when each completed winner should be removed automatically. A kept result can also be removed manually from the winner dialog.

Use Recent winners to review the latest results from this page session, Undo removal when the latest removal is still eligible to be restored, and the sound or fullscreen controls when presenting the wheel to a group.

The Saved wheels panel lets you keep reusable wheel setups in the current browser. Save a wheel under a name such as Class 7A, Dinner, Chores, or Friday Activities, then load it again on a later visit without creating an account.

You can save, load, update, rename, duplicate, or delete named wheels. Saved wheels have stable internal identities, while their names are trimmed and treated as case-insensitively unique so accidental duplicates such as Class 7A and class 7a are not stored as separate wheels.

Editing the active working copy never silently changes a named saved wheel. Use Update when you intentionally want to replace the saved entries with the current list.

When the working copy differs from its last saved or loaded baseline, loading another saved wheel asks before replacing those unsaved edits. If the entries are changed back to the baseline, the warning is no longer needed.

A random picker wheel is a visual tool for selecting one item from a list. Each name or choice appears on a segment, and the wheel presents the selected result by rotating that segment to a fixed pointer.

It is also commonly called a wheel spinner, random wheel, choice wheel, decision wheel, name wheel, or wheel of names.

The wheel format makes a selection easy to follow on a shared screen. Everyone can see the available choices, watch the spin, and see where the wheel stops.

A picker wheel is most useful when every listed result is acceptable. It should not replace judgment when the available choices have serious legal, medical, employment, financial, or safety consequences.

Keep winner is the default. The selected entry remains on the wheel, so it can be selected again on a later independent spin.

Choose Remove winner when you want selection without replacement. After the spin completes, only the exact selected entry is removed. This is useful for presentation order, classroom turns, elimination activities, or working through a task list once.

The latest 20 completed results appear in Recent winners, newest first. This history belongs only to the current page session; it is not saved as part of a named wheel and is cleared when another saved wheel is loaded.

Manual and automatic removals can create one contextual Undo removal action. Undo restores the exact removed occurrence at its previous position only while the working list still matches the state immediately after that removal; unrelated edits or switching wheels invalidate the undo.

Full-screen mode expands the wheel workspace to the browser viewport while keeping the saved-wheel, option, winner, and sound controls available.

The spin sound uses short synthesized ticks that become farther apart as the wheel slows. A separate multi-note sound plays when the winner appears.

Confetti is shown with the winner result as a visual celebration. It does not affect which entry wins and is suppressed when the browser reports a reduced-motion preference.

Browsers can block audio until the user interacts with the page, and they can deny full-screen requests because of browser or embedding policy.

The tool randomly selects one current entry before the visible wheel animation begins. It then calculates the rotation needed to place the centre of that entry's segment beneath the pointer.

The animation presents the result but does not produce it. The wheel uses a four-second eased rotation with rapid early movement and gradual deceleration, but changing its apparent speed, sound, colour, or final visual path would not alter the option already selected for that spin.

Winner selection uses Crypto.getRandomValues(), which provides cryptographically strong random values through the browser. The generated integer is mapped to a valid entry index using rejection sampling.

Rejection sampling avoids modulo bias by discarding values from the small portion of the 32-bit range that cannot be divided evenly among the available entries.

Every individual non-empty line receives one equal selection position. With five unique entries, each entry has a one-in-five chance, or 20%, on a spin.

The visual segments are equal in size because this wheel does not support numeric weights. No ordinary entry is intentionally favoured over another.

Equal probability does not mean that results will alternate evenly. Independent random selections can produce repeats, streaks, and uneven short-term patterns.

Previous spins do not make an option more or less likely on the next spin while the eligible list remains unchanged.

Repeated labels are treated as separate entries rather than being merged. Repeating a line therefore gives that displayed label additional equal positions on the wheel.

For example, a wheel containing Read, Walk, Read, Exercise has four entries. Each line has a 25% chance, while the label Read occupies two positions and therefore has a combined 50% chance.

This is a simple duplicate-entry form of weighting. It is not the same as a dedicated weighted wheel because the interface does not accept percentages, ratios, or numeric weights.

If one repeated occurrence wins, automatic removal, manual removal, and undo operate on that exact indexed occurrence. Other lines containing the same displayed text remain separate entries.

Teachers can enter student names to choose who answers a question, presents next, joins an activity, or begins a classroom game. The same wheel can contain groups, subjects, revision questions, vocabulary categories, writing prompts, mathematical operations, discussion topics, or movement breaks.

Named saved wheels make repeated classroom use easier: a teacher can keep separate wheels for different classes or activities in the same browser instead of rebuilding each list every time.

Use Keep winner for independent participation where a student may be selected again, or Remove winner to work through the current list without selecting the same indexed entry twice unless a removal is undone.

Random selection can distribute opportunities, but teachers should still consider accessibility, participation needs, safeguarding, and whether every listed outcome is appropriate for each student.

A decision wheel can help when several choices are acceptable and the difficulty is simply choosing between them.

Common examples include selecting a meal, film, game, exercise, weekend activity, travel stop, writing topic, household task, or the person who goes first. Frequently used lists can be saved as named wheels and reopened later in the same browser.

Before spinning, remove any option you would not genuinely accept. A wheel cannot judge cost, risk, dietary needs, timing, fairness, or other real-world consequences.

For important decisions, use the result as a prompt for discussion rather than treating it as an instruction that must be followed.

Teams can use the wheel to choose a presenter, discussion topic, speaking order, retrospective question, workshop activity, or the next agenda item.

For an order without repeats, select Remove winner before the first spin. Each completed winner is removed from the active list, and Recent winners shows the latest sequence for the current page session.

If the wrong occurrence is removed and the list has not otherwise changed, use Undo removal to restore that exact entry to its previous position.

Save recurring meeting, workshop, or team wheels under a name when the same set of choices will be used again on the same browser profile.

Random does not mean evenly alternating. A fair process can select the same option several times in a row when winners remain eligible.

An option that has not appeared recently is not automatically due to win. When spins are independent and the eligible list is unchanged, every current entry begins the next spin with the same probability as before.

The wheel stopping near a boundary does not create uncertainty about the winner. The selected entry is determined before animation, and the target rotation aligns the centre of that segment with the pointer.

A visually convincing spin is not proof that a selection system has been independently tested or audited. The animation should not be confused with regulatory verification.

Winner selection and list processing happen in the browser. Options are not placed in the page URL and do not need to be uploaded to a server for the wheel to choose a result.

The current working copy, named saved wheels, and sound preference can be retained with local browser storage. Saved wheels are local to that browser profile and site storage; there is no account or cloud library in this version.

Recent winner history is different: it is kept only for the current page session and is not written into the named saved-wheel library. Loading another saved wheel clears the current session history and undo state.

Anyone using the same browser profile may be able to reopen locally saved wheels. Avoid saving confidential, sensitive, or personally identifying lists on a shared device. Private browsing, browser policy, storage quotas, or clearing site data can prevent or erase local persistence.

The wheel is designed for classroom activities, informal games, harmless decisions, presentation order, creative prompts, and casual selection.

It does not verify who entered the options, whether every participant was included, whether duplicate entries were intentional, or whether the list changed between spins.

It does not produce signed records, downloadable audit logs, independent verification, entrant authentication, or evidence suitable for a regulated drawing.

Do not use it as the sole mechanism for regulated gambling, official lotteries, high-value prize draws, employment decisions, medical decisions, legal selection, financial allocation, or security-sensitive processes.